When imagining the future, the younger me dreamed of living like the Jetsons: flying cars, robots and gadgets performing every daily task. Instead we’ll likely see fewer hyper-futuristic homes and cars, and more solar panel-lined roofs and wind turbines. I’m sure you’ve seen one of the few solar farms in Central Oregon, like the one […]
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A Cloud Over Solar Power?
In the wake of new tariffs on solar energy, local companies say now is the time to buy
Their bodies packed deep inside layers of clothes, Carhartt jackets shielding them from the wintry mix, Rob Sloan and Travis Trondle haul solar panels up a fiberglass ladder. They clip into the protective roping attached to the metal roof and carefully make their way up the pitch, the weather threatening to turn the roof into […]
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Letters 5/26-6/2
IN REPLY TO JARED BLACK “LETTERS” (5/27) Jared Black must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed the morning that he penned his attack on our work and credibility in our investigation on climate change impacts to Deschutes Basin streams in “Climate Change Impacts on Stream Flows, Upper Deschutes Basin, Oregon” (March […]